LETTER FROM MASANJIA
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
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Friday 1:45 PM | Colonial Theatre
2018 | Canada/China | 73 min | Documentary
Director: Leon Lee
Writer: Leon Lee, Caylan Ford
Producer: Leon Lee
Cinematographers: Sun Yi, Marcus Fung
Letter from Masanjia begins when mom of two, Julie Keith, finds an SOS note in a box of “Made in China” Halloween decorations from an Oregon Kmart. The desperate note was written by a political prisoner named Sun Yi, from China’s notorious Masanjia labor camp. On the crumpled page that travelled over 5000 miles, he details being jailed for his spiritual beliefs and how he is being subjected to torture and brainwashing tactics. His message goes viral and miraculously leads to the closure of China’s entire labor camp system. But their story is far from over.
- Published in 2019, Colonial Theatre, Feature Films
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THE SILENCE OF OTHERS
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
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Friday 12:30 PM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | Spain | 87 min | Documentary
Presented by the KSC Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Discussion afterwards led by KSC Faculty
Director: Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar
Producers: Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar
Director of Photography: Almudena Carracedo
Editor: Kim Roberts and Ricardo Acosta
Winner of Spain’s prestigious Goya award for Best Documentary Feature, The Silence of Others offers a cinematic portrait of the first attempt in history to prosecute crimes of General Franco’s 40-year dictatorship in Spain (1939-1975), whose perpetrators have enjoyed impunity for decades due to a 1977 amnesty law. It brings to light a painful past that Spain is reluctant to face, even today, decades after the dictator’s death.
PURCHASE TICKETS- Published in 2019, Feature Films, Putnam Theatre
GHOST LIGHT
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
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Friday 11:30 AM | Colonial Theatre
2018 | USA | 102 min | Comedy
Director: John Stimpson
Writer: John Stimpson
Producers: John Stimpson, Geoffrey Taylor
Principal Cast: Cary Elwes, Shannyn Sossamon, Danielle Campbell, Carol Kane, Roger Bart, Tom Riley, Caroline Portu, Scott Adsit, Steve Tom
Filmmaker in attendance
Ghost Light is a haunted comedy about the absurd, but very seriously regarded, superstitions of the theatre, specifically those surrounding Shakespeare’s Macbeth. When a disgruntled and arrogant understudy tempts fate by uttering the forbidden name of the “Scottish King” on stage, the sorcery of the Bard’s witches overwhelms the production leading to chaos, misfortune and death. All’s well that ends well… but not for everyone.
PURCHASE TICKETS- Published in 2019, Colonial Theatre, Feature Films
WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY
Friday, 22 March 2019
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Friday 10:00 AM | Putnam Theatre
2019 | USA/Poland | 96 min | Documentary
Presented by the KSC Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Director/Writer/Producer: Roberta Grossman
Executive Producers: Nancy Spielberg, Ronald S. Lauder, Al Berg, Ori And Mirit Eisen, Anna Rozalska, Phlippa Kowarsky
Director of Photography: Dyanna Taylor
Discussion afterwards led by KSC Faculty
In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. Now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary. Written, produced, and directed by Roberta Grossman and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon – the truth – and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not.
PURCHASE TICKETS- Published in 2019, Feature Films, Putnam Theatre